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I could not accept His Highness' kind offer. But I have all along felt that Baroda and His Highness have a claim on my services, so that when I was invited to take some share in the editorial work in connection with the Gaekwad's Oriental Series I could not peremptorily decline, though I had then on my hands as much work as I had time to do. At first I was asked to edit Parasurama-Kalpa-Sutra and Nityotsava-Paddhati, for which presumably I was held qualified because I had edited already Shri Shankaracharya's Saundarya-Lahari with Lakshmidhara's Commentary published in the Mysore Government Oriental Library Series.
About five years have elapsed between my promise to edit this work and its performance; and this delay requires some explanation. It was in the latter part of 1917 that at the request of my friend Pandit R. Anantakrishna Sastri of the Baroda Central Library, I undertook to edit Parasurama-KalpaSutra and Nityotsava for the Gaekwad's Oriental Series. I had, however, soon after to regretfully give it up owing to some pressing work I then had in hand. Thereupon Sir John Woodroffe who had for several years been making a special study of the subject was approached as one qualified for the work; but, as he was just then going on leave to Europe, he could only promise to take up the work after his return to India.
The work was again pressed on me and accepted. There was some delay even after this. I could not at once proceed with the edition of the Sutra as no good edition of the Sūtra could be prepared with the materials then available. These consisted of a few indifferent manuscript copies of the Sutra which showed much divergence and two complete and a few fragmentary copies of Nityotsava. This latter again is a Paddhati based on the Sutra, but not a succinct gloss or commentary of the Sutra. By good chance, however, I soon got a copy of Ramesvara's Vritti on the Sutra, which was so full and informing that it was found worth
| SR No. | 010437 |
| Book Title | Parsuram Kalpasutra Part 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | A Mahadev Shastri |
| Publisher | Central Library |
| Publication Year | 1923 |
| Total Pages | 413 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 37 MB |